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    THE LOST WORDFOUND

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    DR. J. D. BUCK, 32Cincinnati, Ohio.

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    THE LO FOUND

    THE

    BY J. D BUCK,

    1

    HARMONIC BOO;VOL.

    INDO-AMERICAN

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    THE LOST WORD FOUNDIN

    THE GREAT WORK

    (MAGNUM OPUS)

    BY J. D. BUCK,

    Author of "Mystic Masonry;""The Genius of Freemasonry;

    'Constructive Psychology;" "A Study of Man;" Etc.

    HARMONIC BOOKLET SERIESVOL. II

    CHICAGOINDO-AMERICAN BOOK CO.

    1909

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    Copyright by J. D. BUCK1908

    Third Edition

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    ADDRESSEDTOALL LOVERS OF TRUTH

    AND HELPERS OF MANKIND

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    FOREWORD

    IT is due to myself, to my Publishers,* and to my Masonic Brethren, aswell as to all other parties who may be

    concerned, to say, that the following

    pages were written entirely on my own

    initiative and without the suggestion of

    anyone, and that I am therefore entirely;

    and solely responsible for the statements

    therein made.

    Having been for more than forty

    years an "explorer of the Secret Vaults

    of Freemasonry, and having at last dis-

    covered the "Lineal Key" in the posses-

    sion of one who "knows the combina-tion,'* I desire simply to place this dis-

    covery at the disposal of my Masonic

    Brethren, with the suggestion only that

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    they have the same right and the same

    opportunity which I have had, to examine

    the evidence for themselves, and then

    act as seems to them desirable, just and

    right.

    Fraternally,

    J. D. BUCK.

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    WHAT IS"THE LOST WORD"?HAT is it that was "lost"?

    Was it merely a "word,"and nothing more?

    How many are there today whohave any definite and satisfactory

    idea as to what is meant in Free-

    masonry by "The Lost Word?"

    It would probably be safe to

    say, not one in a thousand.

    How many of those who havegiven the subject serious thought

    and consideration agree in their

    conclusions?

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    Again it would be safe to say,

    very few.

    But why this uncertainty and

    confusion concerning the one thing

    which, above all others, gives mean-

    ing, or point, or significance to the

    Degree of a Master Mason?If assured by competent authority

    and on legal evidence, that "The

    Lost Word" has reference to an

    ancient estate which has been in-

    creasing in value for many thou-

    sands of years, until the distributive

    share of each Master Mason today

    is worth a million dollars in cash,

    and that this vast Masonic Estate

    is now ready for distribution as

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    soon as a complete roster of the

    Craft can be authenticated, how

    many Master Masons would have

    an interest in "The Lost Word"sufficient to see that their names

    were on the roster?

    This is too delicate a subject to

    admit of speculation, lest injustice

    might be done to the real Spirit

    and Genius of modern Freemasonry,

    as well as to the motives which

    inspire many individual members

    of the Craft.

    There is, however, a sufficient

    reason for the general confusion

    among Masons as to the correct

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    Masonic meaning of "The LostWord."

    Sir Albert Pike, our wise and

    revered Masonic Historian, gives us

    a hint of it in his "Legenda," in

    these words:

    "What is most worth knowingin Masonry is never very openly

    taught. The symbols are displayed,but they are mute. It is by hints

    only,and these the least noticeable

    and apparently insignificant, that

    the Initiate is put upon the track of

    the hidden Secret.

    "It was never intended that themass of Masons should know themeaning of the Blue Degrees, and

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    no pains were spared to conceal

    that meaning/'

    Whatever the real cause may be,

    certain it is that no single subject

    within the scope of Blue Lodge

    Masonry has been invested with

    more of real mysticism and occult

    uncertainty than is that of "The

    Lost Word."

    During the course of his prog-

    ress through the ceremony of the

    Master Mason's Degree, each Initi-

    ate is directly or indirectly informed:

    1

    .

    That there is a Grand Ma-

    sonic "Word."

    2. That at the time of the build-

    ing of King Solomon's Temple it

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    was supposed to be in the posses-

    sion of the Grand Master.

    3. That before the Temple was

    completed some of the craftsmen

    conspired to compel their Grand

    Master to give them the "Word."

    4. That on his third and final

    refusal to give them the "Word"he was killed.

    5. That through his death the

    "Word was lost."

    6. That a "Substitute" therefor

    was adopted "until future ages might

    find out the right," and the initiate

    is given that "Substitute." This

    substitute, as every Master Mason

    knows, is a "word," in the ordi-

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    nary sense of the term, which can

    be pronounced vocally.

    The question now is: What

    was it that was "lost" to Free-

    masonry and Freemasons by the

    death of the Grand Master,

    Hiram?

    Was it a mere word, composedof syllables, which can be vocal-

    ized and pronounced, as can the*

    'Substitute"?

    Think for a moment: At the

    time referred to there were three

    Grand Masters, in a Masonic sense,

    who were directly interested in and

    identified with "the building of the

    Temple." These were King Solo-

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    man, King Hiram of Tyre and

    Hiram Abif.

    If the thing referred to was a

    mere word, all three of these Great

    Masons must have been in posses-

    sion of it.

    In that eventit

    could not havebeen "lost" to the Craft by the

    death of but one of them. It

    would have required the death of

    all three to have lost such a word.To get over this impossible ob-

    stacle, the ingenious suggestion has

    been offered, that it was a word of

    three syllables, or parts, and that

    each one of these Grand Masters

    had one part of it only. In this

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    case neither one alone could give

    it, but it would require all three;

    and that this was the reason for the

    Grand Master's reply, that it could

    not be given "except in the pres-

    ence of" the other two and himself.

    The inadequacy of this suggestion

    becomes apparent when we remem-

    ber that the very first time these

    three Grand Masters came together

    andpronounced the word, each one

    would thereafter know the whole

    word, and anyone of them could

    thereafter pronounce it.

    It thus becomes clear thatthe

    thing that was "lost" through the

    death of the Widow's Son was not

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    a mere word, in the ordinary mean-

    ing of the term; because no such

    mere word could possiblybe "lost"

    under the conditions which existed

    at the time of that historic event.

    There is, however, a consistent

    meaning for the term "Word,"

    which has been and still is in use,

    in both Masonry and the Great

    School back of Masonry, and one

    which meets all the conditionsperfectly.

    That meaning was and is "AnInstruction."

    At the time referred to and priorthereto, the Great School was the

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    source from which the exoteric

    School of Masonry received the

    "Word of Instruction" in the secret

    spiritual knowledge of the ages.

    The Widow's Son was specially

    chosen and prepared by the Great

    School the Great White Lodge

    the Brotherhood of Light to be-come the Spiritual Mentor and

    Supreme Grand Master of the

    exoteric Lodge, "when the Tem-

    ple was completed."

    Through his "untimely death"

    the plan of the Great School, for

    the time being, was thwarted, andthe "Word of Instruction" was in-

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    deed "lost" to the exoteric Schoolof Masonry "until future ages mightfind it." And so it remains "TheLost Word" to this day.

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    THE RECOVERY OF THELOST WORD

    HE whole of the teach-\ ings of Fieemasomy dns-

    ters around the existence.

    nature and perfectibilityof the

    human Soul by Personal Effort.

    The "first great mile-post." the

    lesson of the firstdegree, is to sd

    man free from ignorance,supersti-

    tion and fear-the "demonof the

    threshold." He is thus, for the

    first time in hisprogressive evolu-

    tion, set free from thedebasing in-

    fluence of all who seek byany

    means whatsoever toenslave his

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    soul and make him an asset or achattel of Despotism in any form,

    or under whatsoever name or pre-tense.

    At the moment of liberation, whenhe would utilize the revealed Light,he is "bound by a stronger tie."

    He then begins the struggle "tosubdue his passions," the struggle

    for self-control, which is to end in

    Self -Mastery.

    He is found worthy to be free,only in the sense and to the degreethat he undertakes to control him-

    self, and he voluntarily assumes theobligation and undertakes the work.

    How far each individual candi-

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    date for Initiation realizes the mean-

    ing and senses the obligation thus

    assumed, is a purely personal ques-

    tion.

    But among all the Institutions

    known to man at the present day,

    Freemasonry and the Great School

    back of it are the only ones that

    undertake, with clear intelligence,

    to define man's duty to himself and

    to his fellow men, and to pointout the lines of self-perfection,

    liberation and higher evolution, by

    an exact ethical formulary free from

    all dogmatism, superstition, fear or

    any ulterior motive whatsoever.

    Freemasonry thus stands as an

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    epitome of human wisdom and of

    man's highest achievement to the

    present time.

    It is claimed that "good, square

    work" along these lines, intelli-

    gently apprehended and persistently

    followed, will result in Mastership.

    No intelligent individual who has

    made a careful and thoughtful

    study of the ceremony and dramatic

    ritual of the Lodge, the obligationsassumed, the explanations and

    charge given and accepted, has ever,

    so far as I know, denied the fore-

    going statements and conclusions.

    How far each individual real-izes all this and lives up to it, is not

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    thought and application on the part

    of the initiate to realize its con-

    structive results.

    When these logical and legiti-mate results are fully realized, that

    is, earned by persistent application

    and work,what

    isthe net result?

    The answer to this question is, aMaster.

    Let us remember that we are not

    dealing in "compliments." Wehave assumed that the work is real,

    seriously undertaken and persistently

    followed, and if the results are not

    substantial, then is the whole thing

    a farce, a delusion, and a snare; a

    profanation of holy things (if there

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    be anything holy), a Tantalus

    worse than that fabled of old.

    "If it were possible for the vain,

    the selfish and the mean, in the

    spiritjof vanity, selfishness and mean-

    ness, to achieve Spiritual Independ-

    ence and Mastership, that fact of

    itself would constitute a complete

    justification of vanity # selfishness

    and meanness in human life and

    conduct. If it were possible for

    the subtle trickster, the clever pre-

    tender, the vain boaster, and the

    morally degenerate to skulk past

    the Law of Compensation into theKingdom of Spiritual Light, then

    would nature not only condone

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    trickery, pretense, vanity and im-

    morality, but would become a party

    to them. If this were possible,

    then also would there be no mean-

    ing in honesty, sincerity, humility

    and morality. For if nature made

    no distinction, why should man?

    "The School of Natural Science

    has demonstrated, through centuries

    of experiment, that there are no

    tricksters nor moral degenerates

    within the 'Temple of Spiritual

    Light,' that there is no subterra-

    nean rear entrance and that all who

    reach its sanctum sanctorum do soby way of the front door, and then

    only after having met and complied

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    with every section and requirement

    of the Law of Light. Each indi-

    vidual admitted to its Sacred Pre-

    cincts has come 'of his own free

    will and accord/ He has given

    'the right knock.' He has proved

    beyond all question that he is 'duly

    and truly prepared, worthy and

    well qualified,' and that upon his

    own. merit alone he is entitled to

    'enterand

    be received in due and

    ancient form.'"*

    It is declared herein unequivo-

    cally that back of all the symbolical

    in Freemasonry lies the actual, thereal, the substantial and the true;* M The Great Work,'* pp. 265-6. Read whole chapter

    on "Compensation."

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    and that it is the real that gives life

    and light and meaning to the ideal

    and the symbolical; that back of

    and beyond the reputed Master

    there is the real Master ; that back

    of, beyond and antedating "Specula-

    tive Masonry," by many centuries,

    there is a Practical Masonry of

    which the Speculative is only a hint,

    a symbol, an outer form. Andfinally; that

    backof the "Substi-

    tute" known to Speculative Masonry

    there is the real Word, lost only to

    the Speculative and to be "recov-

    ered" and "restored" whenever theLodge really passes from refresh-

    ment to Labor, restores order from

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    confusion and finds the true designs

    on the trestleboard.

    "By these signs ye shall know

    him." The trestleboard the signs,

    the word, the instruction these are

    the sole criterion of the Master in

    the one case as in the other; in prac-

    tical, no less than in speculative

    Masonry. The "Jewel" will be

    "found on the body," and the Jewel

    is Light, Truth, Love in perfect

    equilibrium.

    He who can distinguish light

    from darkness, truth from falsehood,

    love fromhatred, need be in no

    doubt nor uncertainty about the

    Jewel of the Grand Master. Nor

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    34 The Lost Word Foundneed he be in any doubt about re-

    ceiving the true "Word," when the

    Temple is completed by work ac-

    cording to the "designs." He may"demand it out of season," or deny

    that it exists at all, if he choose, yet

    he can receive it in but one way,

    viz., by merit and previous profi-

    ciency, as all Masters have done

    who have gone this way before.

    The writer is perfectly well aware

    that many Masons will repudiate

    this serious aspect of Freemasonry

    and pride themselves on their own

    intelligence while shrugging theirshoulders at the credulity of those

    who take the subject seriously.

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    But this real Masonry and this

    serious aspect being true, the penalty

    thus paid by the writer for finding

    some few glimpses of the Truth

    and endeavoring to help others to

    find the same, is small indeed, much

    as he values the respect of his fel-

    low craftsmen.

    It would be perfectly legitimate

    for the student to inquire "Whatevidence have you that the 'Great

    School' and any real Masters exist

    at all?"

    Passing by the traditions of the

    Lodge and the philosophy of Ma-sonic Symbolism for the moment, I

    am ready to admit that the Man

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    I hold that any man exhibiting

    such credentials, and so representing

    the Great School, is worthy of, and

    entitled to a very careful considera-

    tion, a conscientious examination to

    see if he can really FILL THE BILL.

    In the first place, "does he seek

    notoriety?" Is he out for "graft"?

    Has he anything to gain personally?

    Does he seek to exploit us? Has

    he unworthy ulterior motives?These are all intelligent and legiti-

    mate questions, and he who does

    not ask them is likely to be de-

    ceived any day, by any mere pre-

    tender, just as scores of people are

    deceived and imposed on every day.

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    We have one possessed of theSIGNS of the Master in the Author

    of 'The Great Work." That Workis his trestleboard. The designs

    therein revealed and the plans for

    the construction of the Temple of

    the Human Soul therein set forthare sufficiently clear, intelligent and

    explicit to enable any intelligent

    man (particularly if he be a just

    and upright Mason) to judge and

    measure his work. The book was

    written, beyond all question, with

    this identical design and for this

    specific purpose; and knowing theman as I do, and having the honor

    and the blessedness of five years

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    of acquaintance and intimate asso-

    ciation with him and study under

    him, I am entirely satisfied that he

    is prepared to stand on the record

    made in 'The Great Work."

    By his work we may know him,

    and by the account thereinplainly

    and specifically set forth may we

    judge of the "Great School," the

    School of Natural Science, from

    which he claims to have received

    his instruction, and which he finds

    it his privilege and his duty to rep-

    resent at the present time. His

    message is "Addressed to the Pro-

    gressive Intelligence of the Age"

    in its "dedication."

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    40 The Lost Word FoundHere then, is not a rumor, nor a

    fad ; nor a thing easily to be thrust

    aside; but "cold type," concise

    statements, deliberate propositions,

    made in good English and reveal-ing educated intelligence and sin-

    cerity on every page.

    Nothing like it can be found in

    the annals of Freemasonry. It is

    unique. It stands alone. It com-

    mands respect and is bound, soon

    or late, to record the judgment of

    every intelligent and sincere man,

    every just and upright Mason in

    the world.Whether the individual Mason

    shall repeat hearsay opinions, pro

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    or con; whether he shall approve

    and accept, or disapprove and con-

    demn after a careful reading, is not

    here and now a matter to be con-

    sidered.

    "The Great Work" will have

    to be reckoned with.

    If the propositions contained in

    this book prove true and acceptable

    to any large body of the Craft,

    then the "Future Generations," by

    whom the real word of the Master

    is to be recovered and restored is

    the PRESENT GENERATION and

    THETIME HAS COME!

    If Freemasonry working with

    only a "substitute" has achieved its

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    present status and world-wide be-

    neficence, what may justly be

    anticipated and confidently expect-

    ed of it when it shall have been

    rehabilitated and restored to its

    ancient wisdom and grandeur ?

    The Fraternityis deliberately

    challenged to just this issue in

    "The Great Work."

    It has been shown that Masonry

    concerns itself with the HumanSoul and the building of Indi-

    vidual Character by Personal Ef-

    fort.

    This constitutes the entire Genius

    of Initiation in Freemasonry.

    Modern Science is just at the

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    threshold of real knowledge of

    Psychology, and now postulates

    the Human Soul as an empirical

    FACT.

    So-called Psychological Science

    is still testing phenomena and

    gathering more data with no defi-

    nite theorem in sight.

    Spiritualism has demonstrated

    the existence of a mass of verified

    phenomena outside of physics and

    kinetics and has extended the

    boundaries of Consciousness a plane

    above ("supraliminal" ) and a

    plane below ( "subliminal

    M

    )that

    previously recognized.

    The various religions of the day

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    reaffirm the old belief in the ex-

    istence and immortality of the Soul,

    while among both "believers" and

    preachers are found many who dis-

    believe or deny altogether, or claim

    that definite knowledge is im-

    possible.

    Under all these conditions and

    signs of the times, here comes one

    who declares that the human Soul

    is a FACT. "There is no death,"but transition only. Man may be-come "Master" of Life and Death

    and thus demonstrate his power to

    "travel in foreign countries," that

    is, outside the physical body, and

    so demonstrate the persistence of

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    the Soul after the change called

    death.

    Meantime it is shown that the

    method of accomplishing this Great

    Work of all the ages, is but the

    fruition, the reward, the legitimate

    consummation of the " Building of

    Character by Personal Effort," as

    illustrated and exemplified in Initia-

    tion into the Masonic Lodge. It

    is the legitimate reward of real

    Mastership and but the normal,

    higher evolution of man under

    natural law.

    Fortunatelyfor man, the historic

    enemy of Freemasonry and Individ-

    ual Liberty cannot "suppress" the

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    book"The Great Work;" and

    persecution of its author, or con-

    demnation and "expurgation" of

    the book itself would only sustain

    the writer and advertise his work

    and impel thousands of the other-

    wise indifferent to read it.

    The modern historic enemy of

    Freemasonry and Human Liberty

    is not "that kind of a fool."

    Itis therefore a question which

    Freemasons alone can determine,

    whether they have interest enough

    to examine the intrinsic evidence in

    favor of the Claims of "The GreatWork," as hundreds of the most

    intelligent men and women outside

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    the Craft are already doing with

    the most satisfactory results and the

    most unqualified appreciation and

    approval.

    The message and appeal are

    peculiarly to Freemasons for reasons

    already shown, and it remains to

    be determined whether it shall

    again be recorded"He came to

    his own and his own received him

    not."

    One thing is certain. The mes-sage is out for all time, and nothing

    short of a cataclysm can now sup-

    press it.

    The active enemy of Human

    Liberty may destroy our Free

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    focalized at last on a tremendous

    scale in this twentieth century and

    in these United States of America.

    Poverty and Wealth, Labor and

    Capital, Socialism and Despotism,

    Co-operation and Competition,

    Freemasonry and Clericalism, these

    are but the "battalions" the "divi-

    sions," the "corps" of seemingly

    hostile legions arrayed against each

    other.

    Back of and beyond all these

    surface struggles and these warring

    armies lies the essential problem of

    human life.

    Other armies fight for temporal

    power and earthly dominion, but

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    the issue between Materialism and

    Spiritism goes to the very heart of

    things. All other warfare is waged

    to determine how man shall live

    here; the ways and the means; the

    comfort and the welfare of the

    many, the whole, or only the few.

    But in the real issue, the ques-

    tion is, whether man shall live AT

    ALL. Is he an ephemeral phenom-

    enon, a passing show ? Or is his

    life real and enduring? Does he

    survive the cataclysms of time?

    Does he inherit the " Kingdom of

    Heaven?" May he achieve Immor-tality?

    A large majority of reputedly in-

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    telligent persons will answer un-

    hesitatingly "Nobody knows,ever did know, or ever can know.

    Those are things which belong to

    the unknowable."

    It is this "agnostic" gnosticism,

    this dogmatic nihilism, against which

    Sir Oliver Lodge, the great phys-

    ical scientist, in the name of science

    protests.

    Modern thought and the more

    advanced Scientists have worked

    up to this point and found an open

    door, though aside from subjective

    phenomena (mediumship) they haveno exact theorem. They know not

    how to proceed.

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    This exact and definite theorem

    challenges them in "The Great

    Work."

    Think for a moment what it

    would mean to the toiling, sorrow-

    ing, hoping and aspiring children

    of men, could an exact, definite,

    demonstrable and affirmative answer

    be given to the question of the

    ages

    "If a man die, shall he live

    again?" Think what it would alsomean if that affirmative answer

    could tell us where, and how, and

    under what conditions life persists

    beyond the grave, and exactly howconditions and the life lived here,

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    determine the conditions of life

    there?

    Is it not worth while?

    This is precisely the question

    treated in "The Great Work."We sorely need genuine spiritual

    knowledge to illumine the dark

    places of the present life, to give

    the real meaning of life. Not

    from the vicissitudes of "three score

    yearsand

    ten"

    whichis

    even nowfar beyond the average but withthe vistas of a thousand years,

    "plane after plane revealed, with

    plane after plane beyond."And this knowledge comes in

    the present age peculiarly to Free-

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    masonry, because the Craft is duly

    and truly prepared to nourish thetradition, preserve the landmarks,

    and ready to receive it, and notscout it and turn it away when theworld sorely needs it, and the timesseem

    propitious for its revelation.It comes to our Fraternity, with thehopeful assurance that here it will

    surely find some who are ready to

    receive it and pass it on from mouthto ear as they receive it, instead of

    crying 'away with it ! Crucifyit!"

    In Galilee, there were "only afew fishermen" and the poor, wholistened gladly.

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    In America today, there are said

    to be over two million "just and

    upright Masons." How will theylisten? Will they recognize the

    designs on the trestleboard ? Will

    they pass from darkness to light?

    Will they still the confusion? Or

    will they, as did their Craftsmen

    of old, hide in the "caves" of ig-

    norance, and be judged at last by

    "the imprecations fromtheir

    ownmouths?"

    "O! that I had only known!"

    Will the listening ear and the

    faithful breast receive the instruc-

    tion? Alas! who can tell?

    And this "Great Work" is only

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    the beginning, the "first lesson."

    More is ready to follow.

    Until the present time, the world

    had no nomenclature, no language

    in which the "things of the spirit"

    could be conveyed to the children

    of men.Paul "saw things impossible to

    utter." No one would understandhim. The world had to work up to

    it, and now THE TIME HAS COME.It is not now the inability to

    apprehend as it was then. Today

    nothing could bar the way but the

    unwillingness to listen, the crass

    materialism that prejudges, scouts

    and denies without examination.

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    There will be today no fudging

    of the pay-roll. Each will get

    exactly what he has earned, for it

    all depends on himself.

    An angel from heaven could

    not compel him to listen; and no

    real Master is likely totry, for he

    knows how useless it would be.

    He simply finds the listening ear

    and the faithful breast among other

    degrees of intelligence.

    Reference is here made to the

    "School of Natural Science," which

    deals only with "cold, hard facts;"

    to "The Great Work" and to the

    real "Master" now among us.

    No one is asked to "believe."

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    All are invited to investigate, to

    examine carefully as the present

    writer has done, and then to reject

    or accept according to evidence and

    their own unbiased judgment.Otherwise, and without such ex-

    amination, any conclusion to which

    they may arrive is utterly worthless,either to themselves or others, as it

    could be only prejudice, due to

    credulity or incredulity, neither of

    which has ever yet led men toLight and Knowledge.

    There was, indeed, a Grand

    MasonicWord the grandestWord, in truth, of which the

    Human Intelligence can conceive.

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    But it was not a mere syllabic

    word, capable of being given and

    received by men of inferior intel-

    ligence or impure lives.

    It was the GRAND MASONICWORD OF INSTRUCTION IN THESPIRITUAL WISDOM OF THE MAS-TERS. It could be given by none

    but a MASTER OF THE GREATSCHOOL, and received by none but

    him who was duly and truly pre-pared, worthy and well qualified to

    become such a MASTER.

    Many there are who have sought

    to unravel this great mystery. Tothis end great libraries have been

    written, only to bury the Lost

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